For me this is the case as well if I know what I'm drawing. If I need to find a way to 'put things on paper', I'd rather have some interactive options, preferably speedy ones ;)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm looking for something that is more interactive though. Ideally it should be like a love child of MS visio / LibreOffice Draw and vim ;)
I believe all their good intentions and I do hope they succeed. But for me it's too early to tell whether their business model will hold. If they build up a sufficiently large user base, but fail to monetize it and sell the company to e.g. Microsoft or Facebook, then I doubt how much of their original privacy / openness remains.
Another thing that I wonder about: Does being Swiss-based give them a privacy advantage?
My first reaction would be: This looks like a SEO hack "back in the 'ol days", where you would include relevant keywords with the same background color in your webpage :)
As others have commented, I guess it's a good idea to provide context of skills and competencies by describing your previous positions. Maybe a separate list for "skills" would be an option as well.
I came across some sites that required MS Word, which I still find weird, as extracting text from a PDF shouldn't be too hard as well.
Thanks for sharing your insights. Tailoring the executive summary for the job opening seems like a good idea. I guess I could treat movement from cover letter to summary to the rest of the resume as a conversion process, convincing the reader to invite me for an interview :)
That sounds like good advice. It's also how I feel about software development in general. The tools are a means to an end. Control of the process/project is often much more of a challenge. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. My current take on setting up my skills and experiences is to put them in context of my previous positions. Would that work for an ATS? (For a human, I'll probably highlight the words somehow)
Thanks for sharing your insights and resume. It's really refreshing to see you describe your work in previous positions in such a clear and meaningful way.
I guess the next step is to write a blog post to assimilate everything I learned today about setting up a 'dev' resume.